Posidonia
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Europe
Giant new Saudi yard to make a splash at Posidonia
Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, and its partners Lamprell, the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) and…
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Europe
Posidonia out in front as the one must-attend event in the shipping calendar
With five days until voting closes in our latest survey, the organisers of Posidonia, the biennial Greek shipping event, are…
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Contributions
The last word on Posidonia 2016
The editor has been hassling me for my impressions on last week’s Posidonia so here goes. The most important, which…
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Americas
Posidonia 2016: A herd of elephants in the room
Just keep smiling for the cameras – that’s what I took away when I attended my first-ever Posidonia in Athens…
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Europe
Record Posidonia defies the markets
Shipping and offshore might be going through a severe downturn, but there was no denying the fact this week that…
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Europe
Greek owners urge EC to review tonnage tax stance
The European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, visited Posidonia in Athens on the show’s final day, where she was hit…
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Asia
Bumi Laut: Ready to order MPPs, but not on home soil
Athens: Senior management from one of Indonesia’s oldest shipping lines has been at Posidonia all week looking to order a…
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Europe
CSSC seals first FSRU deals at Posidonia
Brokers in Shanghai inform Splash that Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, part of state-run CSSC, has sealed a landmark order for two FSRUs…
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Asia
Tsakos Energy Navigation in for Sungdong LR1s
Posidonia is finishing with more Greek ship orders. Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, exhibiting at the Greek show, has contracted…
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Dry Cargo
New software estimates almost 40 capesizes are in lay-up
Software under development by MarineTraffic.com estimates that 37 capesize bulk carriers (6.6m dwt in total) are currently laid up around…
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Asia
TMT unveils hybrid propulsion system that reduces need for ballast water
Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT) has unveiled its chairman Nobu Su’s latest invention: a hybrid propulsion system that aims to mitigate…
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Americas
Panama Canal Authority: 17 days until world trade upgrades
Athens: It was 41 years ago that Jorge Quijano joined the Panama Canal Authority as an engineer. Back then the…
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Asia
Angelicoussis pens orders for DSME VLCCs and LNG carriers
Posidonia wouldn’t be Posidonia without a Greek putting pen to paper for a headline grabbing newbuild contract. John Angelicoussis, who…
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Americas
Book launched at Posidonia highlighting New York’s maritime prowess
New York Maritime Inc (NYMAR) took to the rooftop of Kyla Shipping’s office in Athens this evening for the launch…
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Asia
Minister invites Korean investment in Greece
Dimitrios Mardas, Greece’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, used today’s Korean-Hellenic Maritime Cooperation Forum to invite Korean investment in his…
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Dry Cargo
RightShip: Big Data tool set to launch
Warwick Norman sits, sipping coffee in the early morning sunshine beside the pool at the Astir Palace, the hotel that…
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Asia
Korea aims to be world’s third-largest shipping industry despite billion-dollar losses
South Korea’s shipping industry brought in revenues of $34.5bn during 2015, some $7.8bn behind the 2012 figure due to the…
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Environment
ICS trashes market-based measures to tackle CO2 emissions
Market-based measures to tackle CO2 emissions are “highly controversial” and the majority of the industry is still not really convinced…
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Europe
Frontline takes Metrostar VLCC resale quartet for $260m
Deals are being struck left, right and centre at this year’s Posidonia, and unsurprisingly one of the biggest names of…
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Bunkering
Gas-fuelled bulker promises to shake up ship designs
At Posidonia today a plan was put forward to develop a revolutionary LNG-fuelled bulk carrier. Arista Shipping has teamed up…
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